Slowly but surely their land was being seized by the white man and they were being moved to reservations. ... The ghost dance society gained popularity in early 1880 when the Sioux Indian people in the west were experiencing the loss of their traditional land and resources and the destruction of their way of life. ... The ghost dance was a ceremony that required the Indians to dance in a counter clockwise motion and singing to their dead ancestors. ... The Ghost Dance Society was dead. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Europeans settled in North America, claiming land that was never theirs to claim. ... It was so deep that his wife and neighbors thought he was dead. ... In 1809 tribes in the Indiana Territory surrendered much of their land to the United States, due to the Treaty of Fort Wayne. ... Being a war chief, Tecumseh believed that "only assertive political and military leadership could protect the Indian land base." ... Tecumseh believed that all of the Indian tribes should work together and should not sell any of their land to the white men. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

And Eunice might as well be dead."7 That journal statement alone can stand as evidence that a cultural conflict had driven a serious wedge between Eunice and her English family. ... The Puritans departed England for The Netherlands and eventually migrated to the New World in a quest "for land and a spiritual effort to preserve the "pure" Christian faith."9 These Puritans took many Indian lands for their own and also brought with them disease that the Indians had never seen before and could not treat. ... If the peoples would have been able to live together by sharing land, cultures and religio...

• Word Count: 876
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

And Eunice might as well be dead."7 That journal statement alone can stand as evidence that a cultural conflict had driven a serious wedge between Eunice and her English family. ... The Puritans departed England for The Netherlands and eventually migrated to the New World in a quest "for land and a spiritual effort to preserve the "pure" Christian faith."9 These Puritans took many Indian lands for their own and also brought with them disease that the Indians had never seen before and could not treat. ... If the peoples would have been able to live together by sharing land, cultures and religio...

• Word Count: 927
• Approx Pages: 4